She agrees with The Dude's suspicion that Bunny kidnapped herself and asks The Dude to recover the ransom, as it was illegally withdrawn by her father from a charity.

In a flash, The Dude unravels the whole scheme: when the Big Lebowski heard that Bunny was kidnapped, he used it as a pretense for an embezzlement scheme, in which he withdrew the ransom money from the family charity to keep for himself.

He gave an empty briefcase to The Dude ( who would be the fall guy on whom he pinned the theft ), and was content to let the kidnappers kill Bunny.

The Dude is mostly inspired by Jeff Dowd, a member of the anti-war radical group the Seattle Liberation Front ( The Dude tells Maude Lebowski during the film that he was one of the Seattle Seven, who were members of the SLF ).

Dowd had been a member of the Seattle Seven, liked to drink White Russians, and was known as " The Dude.

According to Ethan, " the movie was conceived as pivoting around that relationship between the Dude and Walter ", which sprang from the scenes between Barton Fink and Charlie Meadows in Barton Fink.

I lived in a little place like that and did drugs, although I think I was a little more creative than the Dude ".

According to Joel, the only time they ever directed Bridges " was when he would come over at the beginning of each scene and ask, ' Do you think the Dude burned one on the way over?

" USA Today gave the film three out of four stars and felt that the Dude was " too passive a hero to sustain interest ", but that there was " enough startling brilliance here to suggest that, just like the Dude, those smarty-pants Coens will abide.

Dude and Chance patrol the town, when Carlos stops the sheriff, saying Wheeler was talking too much about Chance needing help.

Wheeler and Chance also discuss Dude ; about three years earlier Dude was a top-notch gunman until he " met a girl on the stage " who was no good and they left together.

Colorado agrees to join Chance as deputy and then Dude reconsiders quitting after hearing the Deguello song, reminding him why he was there.

The Gulf Hills Inn was revitalized by renaming it Gulf Hills Dude Ranch and creating a western atmosphere.

The town was the fictional hometown of Cactus Jack and Dude Love, two of the several professional wrestling personas of Mick Foley.

Martin was acclaimed for his performance as Dude in Rio Bravo ( 1959 ), directed by Howard Hawks and also starring John Wayne and singer Ricky Nelson.

The incident was mentioned in Michael Moore's book Dude, Where's My Country?

Following a prank at UVM with his friend and former bandmate Steve Pollak — also known as " The Dude of Life "— Anastasio decided to leave the college.

Jeff Bridges stars as Jeff Lebowski, an unemployed Los Angeles slacker and avid bowler, who is referred to ( and also refers to himself ) as " The Dude ".

After a case of mistaken identity, The Dude is introduced to a millionaire also named Jeffrey Lebowski.

In addition, the magazine also ranked The Dude No. 14 in their " The 100 Greatest Characters of the Last 20 Years " poll.

Links between these books also include the following reference to The Walkin ' Dude from The Stand on page 95, " Someone had spray-painted over both signs marking the ramp's ascending curve.

Dude and Feathers also are captured.

Nickelodeon also launched a children's sitcom that year, a western comedy entitled Hey Dude.

Bands such as RKL, NOFX, Stalag 13, Hogan's Heroes, Tales of Terror, The Faction, and Suicidal Tendencies were also among the first wave of skate punk bands, with the latter band also paving the way for skate punk bands to play funk metal .. Blink-182's first two albums, Cheshire Cat and Dude Ranch, were considered by some to be skate punk, and brought large popularity to the genre.

He also created, produced and hosted Punk'd, and played lead roles in the Hollywood films Dude, Where's My Car ?, Just Married, The Butterfly Effect, The Guardian, and What Happens in Vegas.

The Mogollon Rim was also the site of the " Dude Fire " that started on June 25, 1990.

Shatner's spoken-word style was also parodied on The Simpsons, with a spoken-word version of Homer's Christmas carol, " Everybody Hates Ned Flanders " playing on the radio in the episode " Dude, Where's My Ranch?

Dude may also refer to:

The company also had a cartoon mascot known as " The Dude ".

Benjamin Bowmar Curtis ( born November 2, 1980 in Chattanooga, Tennessee ), also known as the Dell Dude or Slacker Steve, is an American actor and former spokesman for Dell Computers.

" I'm Afraid of Britney Spears " also appeared on the Dude, Where's My Car?

His newly acquired fringe prominence also got him colorful bit parts in the movies Airheads, Meet Wally Sparks, Dude, Where's My Car ?, Osmosis Jones, as well as Howard Stern's movie Private Parts.

He also played roles in the films Final Destination, Road Trip, Dude, Where's My Car ?, Evolution, Bulletproof Monk, The Rundown, The Dukes of Hazzard, Role Models, Cop Out, and Goon.

He also makes numerous references to The Big Lebowski, a movie set in his current town of Los Angeles, with references such as " The Dude abides " and " careful man, there's a beverage here " and " Mark it eight Dude " during Top Ten Plays.

The daily tasks can be accomplished in any order the player desires, and the game also includes one task that is activated only when the Postal Dude urinates, in which the player is tasked with getting treatment for gonorrhea after the Postal Dude discovers he has the infection.

Nuestra Señora de los Vampiros is a black and white one-shot published in 1999 by Spanish comic publisher Dude Comics based on the story by Sheridan Le Fanu, but with a modern twist.

He vanishes from the strip and a Christmas, 1945 strip has Caniff saying he based the character on a pilot friend, Frank Cliff, who was killed in Shanghai and " Dude died with him.

In the movie The Big Lebowski, the main character The Dude ( who is based on Jeff Dowd ) says, " Did you ever hear of the Seattle Seven?

The lyrics of " Don't Call Me Dude " by eclectic thrash metal band Scatterbrain are based on this routine.

The affair apparently over, The Dude and his bowling teammates are suddenly confronted by the nihilists, who have set The Dude's car on fire.

He is seen in the bar of the bowling alley, and converses directly with The Dude on two occasions.

* Decade of The Dude: Rolling Stone's 2008 Feature on " The Big Lebowski " in Rolling Stone magazine

Dude ( or guest ) ranches offer tourists the chance to work on cattle ranches, and sometimes participate in cattle drives.

When another patron draws his gun on Chance, causing a stalemate, Dude shoots the gun out of the patron's hand, Chance slugs Joe with his rifle, and the sheriff and his deputy drag Joe off to jail.

Dude notices blood dripping into a drink on the bar and takes one shot into the loft, killing Wheeler's murderer.

Dude then gets retribution on the patron who threw the dollar coin in the spittoon by making him go get it.

She became the singer / yodeler in Dude Martin's Roundup Gang in 1942, appearing on Bay Area radio stations.

The hip hop group Das Racist released the album Shut Up, Dude as a free mix-tape in March 2010 ; the fifth track on this album is " Fake Patois ", which engages issues of authenticity in popular culture.

* Steely Dan mentioned the creature in the song " Any Major Dude Will Tell You " on their 1974 LP Pretzel Logic with the lyric " Have you ever seen a squonk's tears?

** Michael Chabon's novel Wonder Boys contains a reference to the main characters, Grady Tripp and Terry Crabtree, " speculating for hours on the meaning of a certain enigmatic question in the lyrics to ' Any Major Dude.

German electro house duo Digitalism recorded the song " Reeperbahn " on their 2011 release I Love You Dude.

Clarissa Explains It All was the second sitcom to premiere on Nickelodeon in 1991 after Hey Dude ended its run.

* 1989 – Hey Dude premiers on Nickelodeon ; it will go on to run for three years.